2012 California Codes
PEN - Penal Code
PART 1 - OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680]
TITLE 13 - OF CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
CHAPTER 6 - Embezzlement
Section 505


CA Penal Code § 505 (through 2013 Leg Sess) What's This?
  

Every carrier or other person having under his control personal property for the purpose of transportation for hire, who fraudulently appropriates it to any use or purpose inconsistent with the safe keeping of such property and its transportation according to his trust, is guilty of embezzlement, whether he has broken the package in which such property is contained, or has otherwise separated the items thereof, or not.

(Enacted 1872.)

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